{"id":54961,"date":"2019-09-27T08:39:34","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/odkrycie-rzymskie\/in-bulgaria-polish-archaeologists-discovered-fragment-of-document-confirming-granting-of-roman-citizenship\/"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:40:27","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T06:40:27","slug":"in-bulgaria-polish-archaeologists-discovered-fragment-of-document-confirming-granting-of-roman-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"odkrycia-rzymskie","link":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/discoveries\/in-bulgaria-polish-archaeologists-discovered-fragment-of-document-confirming-granting-of-roman-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"In Bulgaria, Polish archaeologists discovered fragment of document confirming granting of Roman citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Novae (Bulgaria), within the <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-army\/roman-camp\/\">Roman camp<\/a>, a fragment of a document confirming the granting of <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-law\/roman-citizenship\/\">citizenship<\/a> to a soldier serving in a local unit was found.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Excavations are carried out on site for almost 50 years by a group of Polish archaeologists. The Roman camp was the location of the VIII Augusta and I Italica legions.<\/p>\n<p>The discovery was made within the remains of a centurion&#8217;s house among the ruins. The document granted citizenship to an auxiliary soldier after serving for 25 years. It was published during the reign of Emperor <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/biographies\/gordian-iii\/\">Gordian III<\/a> (238-244 CE).<\/p>\n<p>This document consisted of two &#8220;pages&#8221; connected by a chain; which in turn was sealed by officials. This meant that content could not even be read by the owner of the document; and unsealing took place only in the presence of officials. A copy of such a document &#8211; in the form of papyrus &#8211; went to the archives in <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-geography\/roman-cities\/rome-eternal-city\/\">Rome<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to specialists of this type of certificate, about a thousand were found in the former <a href=\"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/roman-constitution\/roman-empire\/\">Roman Empire<\/a>; but not much from the Danube. Researchers plan further research and analysis. They hope to find out the name of the veteran soldier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":54956,"template":"","class_list":["post-54961","odkrycia-rzymskie","type-odkrycia-rzymskie","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/54961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/odkrycia-rzymskie"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/odkrycia-rzymskie\/54961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}